A YOUNG woman fled screaming as she was chased across a busy road by a sex attacker who leaped out of the bushes. The 21-year-old lady was walking along Bursledon Road, Bursledon, towards the Tesco superstore, when she saw a man urinating. Seconds later
NHL champions-elect Southampton Arms look like also winning the Supplementary League after their 1-0 away win against Winchester City 'A' last Saturday while RS Basingstoke Res look as though they will have to settle for third place after beating Andover
Brading Town 0, Stockbridge 2 STOCKBRIDGE kept their season alive by winning through to the last four of the Trophyman League Cup last Saturday with promising young striker John Hewitt again on the score sheet. 'Bridge boss Barry Andrews has been particularly
Andover 4 Moneyfields 0 NORMAL service was resumed at The Portway last Saturday as CFL sponsored Andover recovered from the shock of two midweek defeats with a comfortable win over fellow title contenders Moneyfields and move into fifth place in the JWL
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PATIENTS are being made to wait nearly three years for hearing tests in Hampshire, the Daily Echo can reveal. This alarming state of affairs will probably get worse - and it's estimated 30,000 people have hearing problems in Southampton alone. Andy Phillips
PRIZEWINNING sausage- maker Allan Gardner is planning a jubilee surprise for his customers in Ludgershall - a jubilee sausage. "The new sausage should be available by May. At the moment we are experimenting with a range of special ingredients," said Mr
WHEN industrial chemist Ian Burrows spotted an indoor watering can in Woolworth's for just 99p he realised it was a bargain. It was only when he tried to fill it up that he discovered his new purchase was sadly lacking in something. It didn't have a base
A meeting of Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust, managers of Andover hospital, heard the number of people waiting for admission to hospitals in Winchester and Andover had increased by 43 during December. As a result the trust had exceeded its
MIKE Smith reckons he has run thousands of miles around the world, from the Eiffel Tower to Timbuctoo, but never in the London Marathon. The 55-year-old chief executive of the newly- formed enabling partnership between charities, including Enham, is taking
IN his younger days Laurie Hiller was a farm worker at Goodworth Clatford, now he is harvesting the world of computers. The 74-year-old was recommended by John Bowring, chairman of Andover and District Age Concern, to attend the joint Age Concern and
Jason Dodd has been ruled out of the trip to Ipswich after suffering another knee injury - following a collision with former Saints teammate Simon Charlton. Captain Dodd has started 17 games since recovering from the knee injury he sustained back in May
Overton United 2 Laverstock & Ford 2 OVERTON took a point off Hants Division Two leaders Laverstock & Ford but it was a game that Paul Chambers' fourth placed village side needed to win to give them a realistic chance of promotion. Laverstock
Andover NS 1 Poole Town 2 TRANSPLUS sponsored Andover New Street dipped out by the odd goal yet again to another top-six side in the Hants Premier Division last Saturday but manager Gary Prince did not think they ever did enough to win the game against
Whitchurch United 1, Downton 0 AT long last! After a run of 10 successive defeats in the JWL Whitchurch finally broke their losing hoodoo with last Saturday's victory in the bottom-of-the-table clash with Downton. Substitute Paul Rolfe grabbed the all-important
Health bosses are cracking down on non-patient parking at Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester. And they are hoping that new measures being put in place will release 80 more spaces. John Williams, Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust director
Homelands organiser, Mean Fiddler, is unlikely to pick-up the full cost of policing this year's dance music festival expected to attract 50,000 revellers. The issue is a major bugbear for Hampshire council taxpayers who footed half of the £90,000 bill
CHILWORTH Science Park is conjuring up a new school of science wizards by supporting an initiative to attract more young people to technology-based subjects in the Hampshire area. Sponsoring Cricklade College's science quiz - which has a Harry Potter
A SELF-EMPLOYED car mechanic's dream of setting up his own business has been shattered by thieves. Sheldon North had just finished an 18 month project to build his own premises in Over Wallop when the thieves struck. Almost £25,000 worth of equipment
A DARKLY worded poem has been posted up in Nether Wallop following an horrific airgun attack on a kitten in the village. In the shooting Debbie Hughes-Morris' 11-month-old lilac point Birman called Max lost his right eye. Now the incident has a taken
COMPETITION from cheap imports has forced Andover-based furniture-makers Ducal to announce about 90 redundancies following a poor trading year in 2001. Managing director Bob Jones said this week that the company, which was bought by the Silent Night group
THERE are two distinct sides to the Fijian choir members who are appearing at Cricklade Theatre tonight. When they met Andover Advertiser photographer Hannah Powell in Tidworth they were in full cry as rugby players. In bright shirts and sarongs, they
THE threat of closure hanging over Charlton youth group has been lifted this week after three volunteers came forward to help out. As highlighted in last week's Andover Advertiser, up to 35 children might have lost their after-school meeting place if
PARENTS struggling with tearaway teenagers and problem toddlers can find help in a new support group in the town. Andover Parent Support meets at the Copse Hill Family Centre in Shepherds Row and is for mums and dads with children of school age. Attendance
AN extra-special invitation has gone out for this year's carnival on 6 July. Andover Round Table and the organising committee want to see ex-Carnival queens, princesses and princes as special guests at the street event for 2002. Mark Bladen, carnival
THE Government's green paper on a radical overhaul of the planning system has been slated. Hampshire County Council wants democratic accountability to be maintained in planning. Under the proposals in the green paper, county structure plans and district
ANDOVER councillor Rod Bailey has voiced fresh fears over the town becoming like 'Coronation Street' because of government planning rules which require more homes to be crammed into every acre of building land. But he was told by Test Valley Borough Council's
TEST Valley leisure services have come up with an exciting offer for the varied visitor attractions throughout the borough. The local authority and the organisers of the tourist spots are offering a 'two people for the price of one' over the weekend of
A FULL survey of the land at East Anton will be undertaken before the area is earmarked for housing in the local plan, Test Valley Borough Councillors agreed when they met in Andover recently. Development of the area has been suggested by the borough
TIDWORTH Leisure Centre will be the venue for excitement and action tomorrow when the 2002 United Kingdom Taekwon-do Champion-ships will be taking place. Taekwon-do literally means 'the way of the hand and foot' and has gained global popularity since
A special team to market a 24-hour aid for the elderly is being set up by Testway Housing and it aims to keep the price of the service frozen until April 2004. Lifeline is an alarm system which will now be demonstrated and installed by the new team. Director
MENTAL health services in Wiltshire have taken a major step forward in the last year and have a promising future according to a Social Services Inspector-ate report. The inspection, carried out during July and August 2001, looked at the services for people
TIDWORTH and Ludgershall's streets could be full of caravans and motor homes if councillors back Kennet planning officials' advice and refuse a planning application to park caravans on land at Ludgershall Garden Centre. Their recommendation to refuse
TOP geologists are to pore over crucial seismic data over the next 12 months, to discover if the Isle of Wight is sitting above a reservoir of oil. For years experts have suspected oil which has been found in lucrative quantities at Wytch Farm, Dorset
CAMPAIGNERS bidding to secure the long-term future of the Royal Hospital Haslar have unveiled their plan to scare off potential housing developers. Although the government chose the Gosport hospital to become one of the country's new regional diagnostic
